- Fever
- Weight loss
- Profuse rash
- Lymphadenopathy
- Cardiac murmur
- Severe pain and disability
- Malaise and fatigue
- Vasculitic signs
- 2 or more systems involved
Arhritis in children: causes to consider
Infections
- rheumatic fever
- septic arthritis
- meningococcaemia
- osteomyelitis
- reactive arthritis
- tuberculosis
- viral infections
Inflammation - chronic arthritis
- juvenile idiopathic/chronic arthritis
- oligo articular
- seropositive polyarticular
- seronegative polyarticular
- systemic onset arthritis
- enthesitis related arthritis
- Psoriatic juvenile arthritis
Haematological disorders
- thalassaemia
- sickle-cell anaemia
- haemophilia
Neoplasms
- Leukaemia
- Lymphoma
- Neuroblastoma
Orthopaedic conditions
- perthes
- slipped upper femoral epiphyses
- chondromalacia
Others
- Henoch-schonlein purpura
- kawasaki syndrome
- scurvy
- traumatic arthrits
- osteochondritis
- psychogenic rheumatism
- malignant tumour
- bone
- cartilage
- synovium
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